Talk:The Gadfly

Reilly and Voynich

Reilly created his "life" based on characters in two of Voynich's novels, including The Gadfly, not the other way around as "Reilly" and his son wanted the world to believe -- that his life inspired her to write The Gadfly. Voynich started writing the book long before she met Reilly and it is likely that she drew her characters and their experiences based on her own adventures in Russia and those of her husband Wilfrid Voynich as well as her brilliant imagination. OwenBrooke — Preceding unsigned comment added by OwenBrooke (talk • contribs) 12:04, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

That chicken and egg situation is hard to unravel. A remarkable circumstance in this is, though: The Gadfly and Reilly are inseparable, disregarding who came first. Then the movie was made in the Soviet Union with Shostakovich's music. Then the BBC made a TV series about Reilly and used one of Shostakovich's Gadfly themes for the series. I don't know of any other story like this. Ally Hauptmann-Gurski 2001:8003:A928:800:7541:D844:6ED1:206B (talk) 04:35, 22 June 2018 (UTC)

Gadfly/Socrates

I'm not actually familiar with this novel but from the description already here it seems like the title might be a reference to Plato's Apology. 121.218.53.10 (talk) 07:41, 2 July 2009 (UTC)Methos

-- the novel has been re-translated and reprinted in Italy in January 2013 by Castelvecchio publishing — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.13.47.15 (talk) 00:26, 6 March 2013 (UTC)